Lead Business Analyst

Solenis is a leading global producer of specialty chemicals, delivering sustainable solutions for water-intensive industries, including consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets. Owned by Platinum Equity, our innovative portfolio includes advanced water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, and state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems. These technologies enable our customers to optimize operations, enhance product quality, protect critical assets, and achieve their sustainability goals.

At our Global Excellence Center (GEC) in Hyderabad, we support Solenis' global operations by driving excellence in IT, analytics, finance, and other critical business functions. Located in the heart of the IT hub, the GEC offers a dynamic work environment with strong career development opportunities in a rapidly growing yet stable organization. Employees benefit from world-class infrastructure, including an on-campus gym, recreation facilities, creche services, and convenient access to public transport.

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, Solenis operates 69 manufacturing facilities worldwide and employs over 16,100 professionals across 130 countries. Recognized as a 2025 US Best Managed Company for the third consecutive year, Solenis is committed to fostering a culture of safety, diversity, and professional growth.

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We're Hiring: Lead Business Analyst

Location: Hyderabad India – Hybrid

Full-Time | Permanent Position

What you need to be successful

Reporting to Analytics manager, the associate will have following accountabilities:

Creating analytical models

• Should be analytically sound and should be able to identify and propose solutions for the business problems.
• Create analytical models (descriptive or prescriptive) to add more value or validate the results statistically.
• Experienced with all the aspects of projects and adept in data cleaning, transformations, and sampling on the data.
• Should have good knowledge on Statistical models and able to interpret the results of various models (Correlation, Independence Testing, Regression, Time series Forecasting etc.) 
• Experienced in story boarding and should be able to create and propose structure of the report/dashboard between multiple views.
• Summarize the results and present in an Actionable format.

Project Management

• Independently able to lead the discussion with stakeholder from inception to closure.
• Gather requirements and create timelines for the project.
• Identify any inconsistency in the approach and highlight it with a proposed solution.
• Responsible for the task management for the projects.
• Lead 1-3 analysts from operations point of view and support the team lead to groom them.

Process Management and Improvement

• Identify areas of improvement in the existing processes by automations, code optimizations, space optimization, intuitive visualizations, reducing cycle time etc. 
• Share and implement best practices with the team.
• Guide team on activities like version control, archiving, storage management, and frequent review of existing processes.

Culture

• Have good interpersonal skills and should be able to create cordial relations within the team and function.
• Support/Lead team or function level initiatives to improve culture quotient of the function.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Statistics, Chemical, Mathematics or Engineering necessary.
• 5-8 years of relevant quantitative analytics experience.
• Anyone above 5 years exp. who is currently leading a small project and has project management experience.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, dealing with conflicting requests, and prioritizing work requests.

Responsibilities:

• Strong knowledge and experience of data manipulation tools like Python, SQL, Excel, R.
• Experience in dashboarding using visualization tools like Tableau, Qlik Sense etc.
• Experience in managing project with a team of 1+ resources.
• Should be able to create and monitor timelines for self and team.
• Experience with Statistical models like (Correlation, Independence Testing, Regression, Time series Forecasting etc.) or Machine Learning algorithms like Supervised Learning, Classification etc.
• Strong Communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong collaboration capabilities – voice, video and web conferencing, and other tools.

Some benefits of working with us

• Access to a huge array of internal and external training courses on our learning system (free)
• Access to self-paced language training (free)
• Birthday or wedding anniversary gift of INR 1500
• Charity work once a year, to give back to the community
• Company car, phone if required for role
• Competitive health and wellness benefit plan
• Continuous professional development with numerous opportunities for growth
• Creche facility
• Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRGs)
• Electric car charging stations
• Hybrid work arrangement eg. 3 days in office
• Internet allowance
• No-meeting Fridays
• Parking on site (free)
• Relocation assistance available
• Staff hangout spaces, enjoy games like carrom, chess
• Transport by cab if working the midnight – 7am shift
• Well connected to public transport, only a 10 min walk to office

We understand that candidates will not meet every single desired job requirement.  If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Solenis is constantly growing.  Come and grow your career with us.

At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation, and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, consider joining our team.